On 6/15/2015 5:10 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
I thought I'd take a quick spin through the operating systems section of my
library now that I'm at home just to give you some titles that you might
want to check out.
1. Toby mentions Tanenbaum's Minix book and that's a fairly canonical text
... there is a lot of great information in there but IMO some parts can be
a little opaque and overly verbose ... it can be nice to have some
supplementary sources; see (2) :O
2. For more illumination on UNIX, I find both Maurice Bach's Design of the
UNIX Operating System and McKusick's 4.4 BSD book to be well-written.
3. There's a design example (source with walkthrough) for a simple task
scheduler for the PDP-11 in Eckhouse's Minicomputer Systems: Organization
and Programming (PDP-11 edition).
4. Madnick/Donovan Operating Systems or Donovan's Systems Programming ...
were, I imagine, the canon of the 70s and early 80s ... these are written
mostly with the S/360 in mind ...
5. For something maybe less academic and a bit more practical, look for the
"MMURTL book"; I believe the title is "Developing your own 32-bit Operating
System" by Burgess ... neat book ... I've leafed through it but I down own
a copy. Platform is i386.
6. There are also a lot of practicals on Merrill Press that are very good
i.e. The 68000 Micrporocessor by Antonakos ... that will demonstrate the
implementation of a basic ROM monitor from scratch ... I found these books
very illuminating and I think they can be a good bridge between the more
theoretical treatment given in a lot of textbooks and the actual
nitty-gritty of writing some code on bare-metal hardware.
You can pick up a used copy of any of these books for a buck or two on the
used market; that's hard to beat.
That's pretty much all I got ... always looking for interesting books on
this topic contemporary or historic; if anyone else has titles to share
that they could recommend, I'm always happy to hear.
Best,
Sean
Since the computer I designed is a *small* computer, 8 & 16 bit
operating systems is what I am looking at for ideas. This is a 18 bit
cpu with the concept, byte access of memory needs true 18 bit addressing
and 16 bits is bit small for general 1970's data. Think of it as a
something like a 9 bit 6800 cpu.
Ben.
